AANMI has a series of new videos from their Japan 2018 Tour! AANMI Japan Tour 2018 – Intro Video We're excited to publish the first of many Japan 2018 Tour videos, as we promote the release our new album, Transcendent, which is available starting today worldwide! Link for album:https://delosmusic.com/now-available-transcendent/ Posted by Asia / America New…
Fanfare Magazine‘s Huntley Dent has a new review of Mark Abel’s latest Delos recording, Time and Distance: “…Few current songwriters rival Abel’s intriguing texts and their reach into so many psychological and cultural issues. Meaning and melody go hand in hand in a very contemporary way, which I truly admire.” “Abel, being just as serious…
Transcendent This exciting Delos release, the first from AANMI, features Asian members and composers Sayo Kosugi (Japan), Xiaogang Ye (China), Sun-Young Park (Korea) and Narong Prangcharoen (Thailand) as well as participating American members: composers Matthew Aucoin and Chad Cannon, and conductor Yuga Cohler. Solo artists featured in this choice selection of new music are Japanese…
BBC Music Magazine‘s Michael Tanner offers a four-star (for both performance and recording) review for Verdi: Rigoletto starring Dmitri Hvorostovsky: “It is impossible to review this set without acute feelings of regret at the early death of Dmitri Hvorostovsky…This recording, made in July 2016, shows him at the height of his powers in the title…
Opera Lively‘s chief editor, Luiz Gazzola, has a new review of Mark Abel‘s Time and Distance world premiere recordings: “The two singers on Time and Distance do very well, with the Grammy-winning soprano Hila Plitmann once again displaying her agility, range, and purity of sound (I particularly loved her in The Benediction), while mezzo Janelle…
In this unique Delos album, two-time Grammy Award-winning composer, librettist, and producer Herschel Garfein introduces Mortality Mansions: a stunning new song cycle setting poems by former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall. Hall’s plain-spoken, yet profound poetry reveals his candid perspectives on aging, with its inevitable physical decline, fears, personal losses, and emotional trials. Yet he…
San Francisco Classical Voice has published an extensive new feature on Carol Rosenberger‘s memoir, To Play Again: “A new memoir, To Play Again (She Writes Press), tells the story of Rosenberger’s remarkable battle to retrain her body. Overcoming all medical, music industry and social doubt—her own fears and doubts notwithstanding — Rosenberger returned to the…
June 6th is composer Aram Khachaturian’s birthday celebration, so we’re taking the opportunity to celebrate the composer and his music with an all-new Spotify Playlist! Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was born in Tiflis, Imperial Russia (now Tbilisi, Georgia) to a poor Armenian family. In 1921, after Armenia became a part of the Soviet republic, Khachaturian left…
Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss after 60 In this unique Delos album, two-time Grammy Award-winning composer, librettist, and producer Herschel Garfein introduces Mortality Mansions: a stunning new song cycle setting poems by former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall. Hall’s plain-spoken, yet profound poetry reveals his candid perspectives on aging, with its inevitable physical…
Just before their June 15, Transcendent release, the Asia / America New Music Institute will present its debut concerts in mainland Japan with the support of the US Embassy in Tokyo! The June 10-23, 2018 concert series, “In the Current: An International Cultural Exchange Concert Series”, will feature Grammy-winning Shakuhachi Player Kojiro Umezaki and Violinist…
American pianist, and Delos artist, Tara Kamangar writes from New York City that she finds Carol Rosenberger’s To Play Again “a powerful memoir…I came across it yesterday front-and-center at the Juilliard Bookstore (see photos), started reading it yesterday and finished it today— so riveting and beautifully written, I couldn’t put it down.” Tara reflects that…
Aravot‘s Sona Hamalian caught up with Constantine Orbelian in Malta while he was the Chairman of the 2018 Malta International Piano Competition: Maestro Constantine Orbelian is a man with a mission. Never one to be interested in incremental improvements or stop-gap measures, he has been on a passionate, exhilarating quest to turn the beloved institution…
San Francisco Classical Voice‘s Lou Fancher spoke with Mark Abel about his latest Delos recording, Time and Distance: “During a phone conversation with composer Mark Abel, geometry explains the variegated art songs on his new CD, Time and Distance. Oscillating within a triangle whose end points are classical, rock, and jazz music, the San Simeon-based…
“Greek mythology tells us that Apollo set out from the island of Delos every morning with his lyre in hand, bringing light, music and healing to the world. We at Delos share the awareness that our world needs the balm of music.” —Amelia S. Haygood, Delos Founder (1919-2007) The above quote from Delos Founder Amelia…
As a capstone to Mortality Mansions, the music on this album concludes with a setting by Garfein of a poem by Jane Kenyon, sung by the soprano Marnie Breckenridge, with Dimitri Dover on piano. The poem, “Otherwise,” is one of Kenyon’s best-known and most moving: a paean to the precious quotidian pleasures of life while…
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